- Tipped onto mount; a few faint waterstains in lower half. Otherwise fine.

= Caricature of Ernest August, duke of Cumberland and from 1837 onwards king of Hannover. He was a very conservative member of the House of Lords. Perhaps part of a series of caricature portraits showing politicians as coach drivers or conductors. "The Duke of Cumberland, dressed as a guard with broad-brimmed hat, gold-laced great-coat, pouch or satchel, with breeches and top-boots, holds a cocked blunderbuss by the barrel in his right hand, a coach-horn in his left. (...)" (quote from the Brit. Museum on this print).

Jones, Th. (act. 1823-1848). "A Windsor Pair [changed into: "Pear"], full ripe". Etching, w. etched caption below, 22,5x31,2 cm., London, S.W. Fores, 1828.

= "George IV and Miss Chester sit on a rustic garden seat under the branch of a tree, from which a giant pear hangs over their heads, exactly between them. (...)." Miss Eliza Chester was "a beautiful actress, (...) "who solaced George IV's last years at the Cottage, being appointed Reader to the King at a salary of £600." (source: British Museum and M. Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', XI, 1954).

Idem. ""Porro unum est necessarium." "His Ambition will lead him to attempt that one thing." -Vide Napoleon Bonaparte's prophecy." Etching w. etched caption below by T. JONES after W. HEATH, 22,9x32 cm., n.pl., Paul Pry, n.d. (1829).

= The print is a satire on Wellington's pressure on the King over Catholic Emancipation.

AND 14 others similar, all in poor condition.